Re: Assertion failure

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:41 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
 > > Hmmm. mprec originally came with fdlibm from libgcj and we regarded them
 > > as "upstream", but they are now relying on us as upstream. It looks like
 > > the original mprec imported into libgcj actually through newlib
 > > (http://sourceware.org/newlib/) - notice that one maintainer! :)
 > > 
 > > They do have an updated version of mprec.h and mprec.c at:
 > > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/newlib/libc/stdlib/?cvsroot=src
 > > 
 > > Now we need a volunteer to merge our local changes back to that version
 > > and then import a new mprec.
 > 
 > BTW, does anybody know why we are not using the system strtod() when
 > available?

Java has some very specific requirements for floating-point to decimal
conversion, and this library satisfies those requirements.  strtod()
doesn't, or may not.  

Andrew.